FLESHLY OR SPIRITUAL?
READ: Jude 1:14-25
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man;
Ephesians 3:16
Enlargement will not come by developing the flesh. Perhaps, a stronger body and a healthier life will come by developing the flesh.
People who develop the flesh become body builders. They give themselves to health walks and health talks. They give themselves to the gym, to athletics, to exercise and to everything that will make them healthy and strong. Such people are constantly on one diet or another. Today, they eat eggs without egg yolk and on another occasion they have Macdonald’s hamburgers with ice-cold water. Such people are always drinking diet coke and watching their weight.
Those who emphasize on the flesh spend a lot of time on make-up and also doing their hair. The flesh dominates Christians whose lives are filled with these fleshly activities. You cannot achieve much enlargement in God by becoming fleshly.
Enlargement will come to those who become spiritual. People who give themselves to the Spirit become spiritual. Give yourself to the spirit world by giving yourself to the word of God and to prayer.
You become spiritual by developing the inner man – the hidden spirit within you, with the Word of God. You become spiritual by becoming stronger in the inner man. Instead of emphasizing on the outward man, you must emphasize on the inner man. Your spirit feeds on the word of God.
As you feed on the word of God through audio and video messages, your spirit grows bigger. As your spirit grows bigger, it dominates your life. As you can see from the scripture below, the spirit man can actually grow.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
1 Peter 2:2
You become spiritual by developing the inner man and praying in tongues (Jude 1:20).